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First closed-circuit-televised "blue baby" surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, overhead horizontal view.

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A young Josephine. She challenged the prevailing image of beauty for Black women.

In a 1969 letter, Curt Flood declares:

“I do not feel that I’m a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes…” Refusing the trade, Flood challenged baseball’s reserve clause – a provision of every major league contract that…

Black Gold Star mothers asserted their citizenship rights by claiming the same military benefits afforded white mothers and widows. In their photographs of the pilgrimage, Black women brandished the American flag thereby challenging the iconic image…

Johns Hopkins Special Collections has scanned the entire African American Real Postcard collection making it available to everyone.